Le 20 févr. 2012 à 18:56, Paul Eggert a écrit :

> On 02/18/2012 02:02 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>>  for (/* Niente */; exponent; --exponent)
>> why this comment in italian ("Niente") here?
> 
> I always took it as a reference to Far Niente winery
> <http://www.farniente.com/> and assumed that the original
> programmer had drunk a bottle or two of their good stuff
> before composing the code.  Dolce far niente!

I never realized that.  Although I confess that on more
than one occasion, I did have a couple of bottles while
hacking :)  Fortunately Git now allows to keep this local :)


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